Is there still room for paper-cutting art today?

With the rapid development of society, people pay more and more attention to traditional culture and traditional intangible heritage, so does paper-cutting. Paper-cut art has a long history and has a wide range of folk activities. It has been circulated among the people in Hebei province to this day. Like calligraphy, it is deeply loved by the people and widely used. It is an indispensable part of our life to cut the moon and stick windows, cut mandarin ducks and play in the water, and stick linden trees.

1. To inherit the essence of folk paper-cutting art and not to make it stale and alienated, we need to learn from old artists or excellent traditional paper-cutting, appreciate their creative spirit and intentions, feel their inner feelings and thoughts, observe their paper-cutting skills and methods, and observe and appreciate the characteristics of their modeling language.

2, paper-cut into the campus. As a vivid and effective form of aesthetic education and traditional culture education, paper-cutting teaching should be popularized on campus, and art teachers can be organized to participate in paper-cutting training in conditional areas. Paper-cut non-legacy propaganda should be diversified on multiple platforms. For example, short videos can be used to spread paper-cutting skills freely and conveniently. In the past, the display of paper-cut intangible heritage was mostly in large-scale activities. The audience wants to learn paper-cutting, and there is no contact, and the paper-cutter has no more publicity methods.

3. Protecting the Roots of Folk Culture Throughout the content of traditional folk paper-cutting, it contains a lot of folk cultural information, such as solar terms, weddings and funerals, hunting and animal husbandry, witchcraft spells, life universe, myths and legends, folk proverbs and so on. These are all reflected in the traditional folk paper-cutting. Therefore, the first step to protect and inherit the folk paper-cut art is to deeply understand the traditional culture of China and have a sense of identity with the local folk culture.

Protecting and developing the commercial value of paper-cut works should be strongly supported by the government. For example, the promotion of original copyright and manual paper-cutting skills; Manual paper-cutting and mechanized mass production; The inheritance and innovation of paper-cutting skills on the internet, the research and development of paper-cutting APP, etc.